{"product_id":"cultural-construction-of-empire-9780803232525","title":"Cultural Construction of Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1866 through 1886, the US Army occupied southern Arizona and New Mexico in an attempt to claim it for settlement by Americans. Through a postcolonial lens, Janne Lahti examines the army, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire whose mission was to serve as a group of colonizers engaged in ideological as well as military, conquest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Provocative.\"—Robert Wooster, \u003ci\u003eMontana, The Magazine of Western History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a useful book that should be read widely.\"—C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cultural Construction of Empire is an engaging and thought-provoking look at how the U.S. Army did as much to expand the American empire through its social and cultural bearing as it did on the battlefield. This s an important contribution to the history of the Southwest and U.S. Army.\"—Gary L. Cheatham, \u003ci\u003eSouthwestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lahti has produced an excellent book, one that is richly researched, thoughtful, engaging, and nicely organized.\"—Daniel Herman, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Arizona History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A Colonizer Community in the Borderlands\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. From Apacheria to American Southwest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Journey to the \"Outside\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. The Place Facing Colonialism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Apaches in White Army Minds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Army Village as Middle-Class Living Space\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Manual Labor and Leisure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Colonized Labor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: An Empire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405248930135,"sku":"9780803232525","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803232525.jpg?v=1730489276","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultural-construction-of-empire-9780803232525","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}